Feb 06 2012: The ongoing sales tax battle between many US states and large online retailers, most notably Amazon, continues with a thrust from Arizona which, last week, billed Amazon $53 million for uncollected sales taxes.
The Tucson Citizen reported that in a filing last week ...
Feb 03 2012: There are mumblings in the blogosphere that Amazon is to open bricks and mortar stores. Launch.it offers four possible scenarios:
The first scenario: the store could just be a showroom with display units of appliances and "geniuses" running around showing you the top...
Jan 31 2012: Barnes & Noble has decided not to stock books published by Amazon in their physical stores.
According to Jaime Carey, B&N's Chief Merchandising Officer in an email to Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter Brad Stone:
"Barnes & Noble has made a decision not to ...
Jan 24 2012: Simply Audiobooks launched a new service today offering unlimited audio books for a $25 monthly subscription. The catch is that because the books are streamed rather than downloaded you have to be connected to the internet to listen to them; also the current selection ...
Jan 24 2012: Novelist Andrew Miller has won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year, his first major literary award, for his sixth novel, Pure, set in pre-revolutionary Paris in 1785.
Pure is published in the UK by Sceptre, the literary imprint of Hodder and Stoughton. It would seem that...
Jan 23 2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos has won the John Newbery Medal at the American Library Association’s annual youth media awards.
Jan 23 2012: According to the latest Pew Survey, the share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers, which also jumped from 10% to 19% ...
Jan 20 2012: On Wednesday, the USA Supreme Court upheld a 1994 law granting copyright protection to a large number of foreign works that had been freely available in the public domain including books by J.R.R. Tolkien and George Orwell.
According to The Wall Street Journal, ...
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